Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 07:11:40 -0800 From: Saint Aardvark the Carpeted <aardvark@saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com> To: Dragoncrest <dragoncrest@voyager.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fetchmail slow? (was Re: Can't install fetchmail - HELP!) Message-ID: <20030202151140.GH20409@hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20030201194438.0096de90@pop.voyager.net> References: <4.2.0.58.20030201181602.00993b40@pop.voyager.net> <4.2.0.58.20030201194438.0096de90@pop.voyager.net>
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Dragoncrest disturbed my sleep to write: > Now, on to the next bit of fun. Fetchmail is being dog slow. Yet > it's being silent and won't tell me why. Fetchmail was doing the same to me. It turned out that the POP server (one I run myself) was running the identd daemon, and was trying to query the computer that was running fetchmail to verify my identity. I had my firewall set up to drop these packets -- but this just makes the identd daemon try harder, until finally it times out. I read somewhere that the Right Way to take care of this was to send reset packets back, rather than silently drop them; the identd daemon gives up right away (or nearly so). Try using ipfw like so: reset tcp from any 113 to any in recv <foo> where <foo> is set to whatever your external interface, and see if that makes a difference. Hope this helps, Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted aardvark@saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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